historical memory

collocation in English

meaningsofhistoricalandmemory

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historical
adjective
uk
/hɪˈstɒr.ɪ.kəl/us
/hɪˈstɔːr.ɪ.kəl/
connected with studying or representing things from ...
See more athistorical
memory
noun
uk
/ˈmem.ər.i/us
/ˈmem.ər.i/
the ability to remember information, experiences, ...
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(Definition ofhistoricalandmemoryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofhistorical memory

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Historicalmemoryof it was lost and proved irrecoverable even when actively sought.
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Natural sciences replace a long-termhistoricalmemorywith the preservation of corresponding memorabilia.
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Nevertheless, through formal and informal networks, a collectivehistoricalmemoryand identity was clearly being encouraged.
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In the poems from this third group, femininehistoricalmemorydomesticates the inevitable disruptive effects of time, violence, and death.
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Patriotism, race andhistoricalmemorywere some of the conceptual links through which present identities were related to the past.
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I disagree with hishistoricalmemory.
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The book dwells on several themes, among them regional identities, particularly in their racial aspects, andhistoricalmemoryin local communities.
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However, by the 1980s the ideological climate had changed, and the concept of heritage could be reintroduced by a new generation withouthistoricalmemory.
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The result was that he failed in both: he neither created a national consciousness nor did he create a commonhistoricalmemory.
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Furthermore, they will recall events for those who lived through them, and will carry forward thehistoricalmemoryto the next generation.
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To have done so would have affronted their descendants-one point of preserving and replicatinghistoricalmemorywas to assert a relationship with previous generations of leaders.
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That way, you would be wiping out thehistoricalmemoryof nations.
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A country's sense of its own identity depends extremely heavily on its ownhistoricalmemory.
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This thought process involves anhistoricalmemorywhich combines a computer and an inaccurate and very selective encyclopædia.
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Our people have suffered the forced uprooting of their national identity and the eradication of theirhistoricalmemory.
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Thehistoricalmemoryof the crusades has been sharply divided.
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The book also discusseshistoricalmemoryand public personas.
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I would also like to point out that we have been accompanied in the public gallery by people whosehistoricalmemoryhas brought them here.
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No such law was passed until 1924, when people'shistoricalmemoryappeared to have faded.
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The point is so named in order to preserve thehistoricalmemoryof the area.
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The feature is so named in order to preserve thehistoricalmemoryof the area.
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The reference to the change in sacrificial ritual may also reflect somehistoricalmemory.
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Indeed, this reference is not a contribution to the clerical concerns of certain social groups but thehistoricalmemoryof the truest meaning behind our institutions.
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The scientist viewed culture as ahistoricalmemory, as a process of accumulation, rather than consecutive changes.
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